Your life’s course will not be determined by doing the things that you are certain you can do. Those are the easy things. It will be determined by whether you try the things that are hard.
SHERYL SANDBERGI tell people in their careers, ‘Look for growth. Look for the teams that are growing quickly. Look for the companies that are doing well. Look for a place where you feel that you can have a lot of impact.’
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.
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Don’t make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you’re not even conscious you’re making.
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And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?
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I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
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If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
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I know from my own experience that the path to change is best traveled when we travel together.
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When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a ‘good man’ before they are all taken.
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What I tell everyone, and I really do for myself is, I have a long-run dream, which is I want to work on stuff that I think matters.
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The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.
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Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.
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Give us a world where half our homes are run by men and half our institutions are run by women. I’m pretty sure that would be a better world.
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Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.
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I’m a feminist because I believe in women, it’s a heavy word, feminism, but it’s not one I think we should run from. I’m proud to be a feminist.
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But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
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We’re focused on doing one thing incredibly well. If you look at other companies, all of these companies are doing a lot of different things but we’re still, as we grow, doing exactly one thing.
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The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become self-fulfilling prophesies. Most leadership positions are held by men, so women don’t expect to achieve them, and that becomes one of the reasons they don’t.
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Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.
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Next time you’re about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, ‘My daughter has executive leadership skills.’
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A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.
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When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.
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We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.
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There is no perfect fit when you’re looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.
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When people are really suffering, and we know they’re suffering, that question can be a very difficult one. Inadvertently, I think without anyone meaning it, it communicates a lack of empathy.
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If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.
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Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
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